Rolling Stone's Top 500 Albums List Is Rough
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"What's your favourite Beatles album?"
"Tough one. I think I'd have to say The Best of The Beatles."
Really the best of the beatles? We all know the blue album is clearly their best.
C D P jesus is king??
Classic Alan Partridge
Wings are only the band the Beatles could have been
@@leofennk2k Eh, theres a lot of compositional and lyrical choices that Wings did that the Beatles wouldnt do. They're similar, but still different
Wow, the Rolling Stones have released 500 albums? They really are on a roll.
Viper the rapper>>>
I really gotta keep up with The Rolling Stones.
@@trevbev45 it’s almost impossible, as soon as I digest a new Rolling Stones release, another drops a week later, it’s infuriating 😤😫😠
Lil b is better
ok that pun actually got me lmaoo
If only King Crimson, Zappa, Aphex Twin, Talk Talk, put out ANYTHING as close enough in greatness to Harry Styles.
Aphex Twin isn't on the list? Come on...
IKR, but to be fair i thought fine line was a pretty good album
@@subwoofer7302yea I catch my poop when I shit and it taste really good
@@idkyou8188 Ya fair point
Agreed as a harry styles fan
It's like they didn't want to be too biased toward classic rock and jazz, so they just went to the other extreme of including a bunch of inconsequential recent releases
Yeah for real. Including albums from harry styles, billie eilish, bad bunny, etc that are only a couple years old is a joke. This album ranking plays out like an Onion article
These lists should only include albums at least 10 years old. To ensure that these songs withstand the test of time. However, streaming platforms need to figure out how to get artists paid when they are good and weed out the astrpturfers
@@houserhouse 100% agree. It's impossible to tell if an album is among the most sonically influential and culturally significant if it only came out a couple years ago. If people are still talking about an album 10 years after its release then you know it's good. I very highly doubt that any of the picks on this list from 2018 and 2019 are still going to be considered important and worth listening to in 20 years from now. Except for maybe billie eilish. A lot of copycats of her are going to start popping up everywhere within the next couple years
@@mikubrot that's a much better idea. If they want to do all time, it can't include stuff that came out so recently it hasn't even had the opportunity to die off in relevance.
People talk about albums being “influential” and “going down in history.”
I see that as an appeal to popularity. The greatest album does not equal the most loved or remembered album. The greatest album of all time could be recent or it could be one that’s completely overlooked and dismissed by music critics.
Anthony, you can’t judge the whole list just because they didn’t have Total Xanarchy at #1.
ikr? D:
Total Xanarchy is up there with the legendary Angelic 2 The Core and The Wall (Recollection Commentator version)
You are a musical ignorant. #1 should have been Angelic 2 the core and #2 should have been Nav Good Intentions.
@Bill Cosby it's official. Bill Cosby is a Fantano fan 🤯🤯
this wasn’t anthony though, this was robot fantano...
Anthony not every list is going to have Death Grips at 1
234 likes and no comments...
@@user-zf4vp5fc3y 😎🤙
the money store, love it or hate it, shoulda made the fucking list. so bullshit
@@beErEy2324 no the money store is trash
@@NoName-jy8ou awful opinion
Ranking 500 albums is just such a Herculean task, the number is way too large to accurately rank any of these albums anyway. This list was doomed to fail
Fantano could have done it in his sleep.
Completely agree. I don't think anyone here (including myself!) could make a top 500 list that music critics would agree with. It is inevitable that people will spot a few albums that seem out of place relative to other albums. Unless you want to rank albums by sales or some measurable statistic, it's impossible to justify your choices and satisfy everyone.
@@carltonmeredith6955 "music critics"
@@RuthwikRao good point, I guess that's literally their whole job to find things to have criticism (positive or negative) about
@@carltonmeredith6955 Yes but compilations albums? that seems just a complete wrong move. no body be like my fav of all time is the best of ____.
You're a Beatles fan eh? What's your favourite album?
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I would have to say "The Best of the Beatles."
-Alan Partridge
That's actually hilarious considering there's an album called "Best of the Beatles" - however that's a solo project by their first drummer, Pete Best. You see what he did there?
Best got thrown out just before Ringo joined, so after the Beatles had their breakthrough he tried to benefit from his connection to them by releasing this record.
(Don't mind me if that story was the reason you wrote your comment in the first place. I just take it you're referring to Anthony saying there's so many compilation albums on the list, and that's what your joke is about. Correct me if I'm wrong. )
@@hannahg8439 the hell is this comment?
@@jeebuz6627?
Elaborate please.
@@hannahg8439 like, obviously that’s a name of a Beatles album. Otherwise the joke would have never been said.
@@jeebuz6627 you didn't get it. The album I was talking about was in fact not a Beatles album. It was a solo project by a person that used to be the drummer of the group for a short period of time before they got famous.
The best album of all time is Crazy Hits by Crazy Frog, this is the truth
I gave that cd to mine classmate in 4th grade. The worst desicion I made in my life.
What is the number one? I tried to look but it crashes
@@drytowel1585 a marvin gaye album
EATTONY RICHTANO HERE
It’s a fire record. Too bad crazy frog overdosed. Another young rapper gone too soon 😔 RIP.
Rolling stone has made 3 versions of this list since 03 and STILL can’t put a single king crimson record on the list
or a single album from Brazil, Japan, Cuba, etc. I mean, most of the countries in the world are missing, but I just named some hugely influential and with wildely known and respected musicians
@@rodrigorezende6864 especially Brazil... yet there's 2 reggaeton albums in there...
Can't believe they didn't put Acabou Chorare, Clube da Esquina, Chega de Saudade, Construção, Tabua de Esmeralda, Previsão do Tempo and even Getz/Gilberto... But I'm okay with that...
WTF??!!!!
Really??!
How?!
King crimson's debut album is easily one of the most influential prog rock albums of all time! And certainly one of the best prog albums!
How the fuck didn't they put a crimson album there but they've putted HARRY STILES?!?!
that makes me so mad
@Richie Hernández I'm not asking RS to be inclusive just for diversity's sake, it's just a bad look to make a list of the so called "greatest albums of all time" and leave out all these landmark titles... but since you ask, Clube da Esquina, Acabou Chorare, Chega de Saudade, Buena Vista Social Club, Solid State Survivor, Happy End, Long Season, Transa, Cachao... to name a few
I was shocked to see Billie Eilish's When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go? on the list. It's a fine album, but way too recent to be considered amongst the 500 greatest.
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Rolling stone is biased they missed out albums that were listed higher than these albums in the year end best albums lol
Harry Styles album is also on there and it was released in december 2019, less than a year before this list was published, pretty weird too
I think Billie's album is *decent* and way too recent, nothing more, and didn't deserve to be in this list.
and its only 10 places below J DILLAS DONUTS which is one of the greatest hip hop records of all time and fucking IN RAINBOWS???
The fact that they put drake in front of any radiohead album is a blow
Drake take care is apparently better than 2pac all eyes on me and Kanye west Late registration according to rolling stone smh
Haha
@@TheNadroj10 Drake is apparently better than Tupac and Eminem
The fact that Drake is on the list at all tells me they're pandering to high schoolers. He's a hack.
They pit drake above master of puppets,in mine and many other peoples opinion that is a genre defining album.
The energy of every Rolling Stone list:
Dad to daughter: "You know, I actually gave that Harry Styles guy of yours a listen and I'll admit he's got some good songs."
Daughter: "Oh, cool, glad you liked it."
Dad: "Actually he reminds me of Jackson Browne a bit. You know Jackson Browne? Oh you've gotta take a listen to this..."
Incredibly accurate
Why'd you have to go and make things so complicated? I see the way you're acting like you're somebody else. Gets me frustrated. Just admit that you love the videos I make, my dear st
This is literally my dad and my sisters dynamic
@Luke I recommended Kids See Ghosts to my dad and he actually liked it lol
@@ok6866 to be fair, it's a fucking phenomenal album
500: Arcade Fire - Funeral
491: Harry Styles - Fine Line
Okay
right
Fuck's sake. Haven't even started the list and I already got the whole idea behind it.
Yup
Whyyyy
Oh my God...
Tbh this list was doomed before they even started making it. Music and art in general is just way too subjective and fluid to rank. Especially when talking about comparing really good art with really good art.
the list is crooked but probably made millions of dollars for rolling stone
They could’ve done it by popularity or influence then, since those are more objective things.
@@RainytheNB popularity? Lmao. Fuck no.
@Jonald Grump yeah but ranking albums on popularity would be bullshit.
ikr, everytime I try and make a top __ list I always get stuck at number 3-1 because then I'm like "But there were other really good albums/songs tho" and then give up
4:42 “Eagles Hotel Cali f o r n i a”
I love it
The worst part of this list hands down is the fact that Rolling Stone continue to pretend that King Crimson don't exist
Yah there’s no other explanation other than rolling stone likes to hold these grudges. All these years later they still can’t admit they were wrong about Led Zeppelin and many other bands so they continue to deny them the recognition they deserve
Seriously, at least _Court_ and _Red_ deserve placement based on influence alone.
But, I mean, does anyone even take Rolling Stone seriously anymore?
@@boylie7444 I mean, Tom Waits albums always get mediocre reviews in The Rolling Stone, and then lists like this are packed with him. I love Tom Waits, though, so I'm not complaining.
Wait, so why do they have a grudge against King Crimson?
Even deep purple
the fact that there’s 500 albums from all different genres here and anthony has probably listened to them all and has something to say about them all is mind blowing to me
Everyone felt that
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I always think about: does Anthony ever listen to music just for fun? Like obviously he must, but he listens to so much music just for the reviews like if he was listening to music for pleasure on top of that jesus Christ how many hours a day does he spend listening to music
@@ueuuehhh9748 He definitely does. I've heard him mention "I keep going back to this" about albums or whatever, like clipping's first album video. Also, I barely do stuff with music, but I'm listening to music for large portions of the day too, so I'd be curious how much he actually does listen to music on average in a day 🤣 I know I probably haven't even listened to 500 albums through myself.
it’s almost as if it’s his job 😐😐😐
We finally entered the "let's make everyone happy instead of picking what's really good" era.
These lists have always been like that
what are you talking about these have been always like that lmao
Clearly it isn’t making everyone happy since everyone is shitting on it lol
Participation trophies
RS nowadays be like "fuck the beatles cuz they white, give beyonce a chance"
Whatever you think about Hotel California, it's massive influence on music and pop culture cannot be denied. And it is pretty good.
I don’t know why he hates them so much. Their music has been done with genuine talent and although their music might sound basic, there is a lot of complexity behind their songs that people do not seem to realize…
@@mateorincon3448It's popular, that's probably why
Yeah I don’t know why he doesn’t like them. That album is one of the most sold records of all time. It deserves top 20 imo. And it is far from basic. I’d like to find one album that sounds remotely like it
@@thriftstorechicken3395 it's actually just boring dad rock with no real energy.
@@heyheygoawaynot at all brh , Eagle's are great
No Anthony, "Money Store wasn't in all 500 spots" is not a valid criticism
Why this has no replies, idk. This is a great comment however
That is an awfully hot coffee pot.
That is an awfully hot coffee pot.
@@SageOcs That is an awfully hot coffee pot
yes it is.
He mad because Yeezus is there instead of The Money Store
I'd be mad too for that reason
I'm mad that they put Yeezus on there at all
@@mothafuckinfoofighter8543 probably doesn't deserve to be on a list like this, but I can let it pass. not one of Ye's best, definitely not one of his most influential, not one of the most memorable, just "groundbreaking" for Kanye's standards and that's it
@@mothafuckinfoofighter8543 I’m a Yeezus fan so I’m proud
I'm mad that cherry bomb wasn't there
For being dated, the cover of Graduation looks like it was made in 2021
It rly does
Because it's made by Takashi Murakami. He's out there since the 90s, but I think he's quite influancial for todays "cyber art" scene.
That's no compliment
why do people say grad is dated?
@@zzzzzzzjsjyue2175 Dated isn’t always an insult to the music. It’s just that the album has a very specific sound that anchors it to a certain time period. A lot of albums that came out around graduation sound like graduation. Same thing goes for Stankonia by OutKast, great album but totally sounds like 2001 era hip hop.
If they were so concerned about “representing” the world’s music, why isn’t Clube da Esquina on this list? What many consider the greatest Brazilian album of all time.
Sooo fucking good
It's pretty much a best music in english list I think. Kind of arrogant of them to label it as greatest albums ever as if there aren't an enormous amount of incredible albums from Latin America, Africa and Asia
Many brazilian albums would be deserving, definitely some Jobim albums, Gal Costa, Chico Buarque ect
Clube da Esquina is a legit 10/10 no cap
The fact that “The New CALassic” isn’t on there is a travesty.
Hahaha hahaha
Dude we need more cal
@N K he actually did.
Nah, total xanarcy is not on here, that alone means they have no credibility
Boomers would burn down Rolling Stone HQ if they left the Eagles off of this list.
this is so accurate it's almost sad
Ya and no one thinks Marvin Gaye has the best album ever
Even then there are better Eagles albums than Hotel California
I hate the fuckin' Eagles, man.
@@twodumbcats390 Trash opinion
Apparently Bad bunny and Harry Styles have released a better record than Tool, Boston, SOAD, Faith no More and Talk Talks whole discography... yeah a shocker right
Fine Line is a really good album but any SOAD album is ten times better than Fine Line
Boston's first album deserves top 200 for sure
@@countyfacts6920 nothing else sounds like it, it was a unique and defining album
Faith No More gets the shaft so often despite being one of the most influential rock bands of the 20th century
Tool sucks lmao
Rolling stone also put Welcome to the Jungle as the greatest rock song of all time.........kill me
If anything by Guns N Roses even appears anywhere near the top of a best of rock list, you know the list is wrong
They did whattt????
@@creamcannon825 I get why they are hated as a group but they have undoubtedly put out some great stuff. I dont think any best rock list would be complete without at least a mention of appetite for destruction
@@creamcannon825 no, far too blanket of a statement - that said, of course they picked something the is synonymous with the band instead of something more artistically impressive from UYI 1 or 2.
@@creamcannon825 Guns N Roses actually made decent songs. Axl Rose is a douchebag tho.
The fact that it's not Die Lit 500 times is what upsets me most
Jester is ded
Same.
im on them beans
@@lincolnlee925 for real
all jokes aside Die Lit is definitely top 500 of all time
But yes of course, the four continents: USA, South America, Africa and Japan.
We don't talk about India
I think he might've forgotten the fift continent: India.
and the sixth continent: Rosalia.
@@2122Hellfire As a spanish guy this genuinely made me laugh
And America apparently being the only country in the West, too
Pink Floyd's Dark Side of The Moon is at #55. There's something really wrong here
Imagine thinking Lemonade is a better album than the Dark Side. lol
@@zackzallie8735 fuck dark side of the moon
@@aze4964 no.
I was getting ready to hear him shit on MBDTF for being in the 14th spot
he should have done that
Should be bottom 14th tbh
Anthony already acknowledged over the years that he has a different take than (a lot) of others on MBDTF. No point in dredging that up again. (Disclaimer MBDTF is my fav album)
i think melon is too harsh on Graduation ngl
If only Frank Zappa had an album as good as Drake, T Swift or Harry Styles...
naaah he can't be!! he's not a Beatle or a stone so he's just a experimental rock star how... they can't admit his work
@@TheGyroBarqusShow Trout mask replica who?
@@chrisjacob1446 fishman album you mean?
Freak Out! and We're Only In It For The Money were omitted from this edition from the list after being on the first 2 lists
Yknow, some might argue Drake, Taylor Swift and Harry Styles are the Sinatras of our generation. Don't be so arrogant.
Even boomers scoff at how out of touch Rolling Stone is. They've been irrelevant for decades.
The title itself, "The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time", is such an eye-roll. Too American-esque.
Yes it is an American publication
what do u expect, americans call themselves world champions after winning NBA, NFL championship
@@arkos1179 lmao
@@arkos1179 the only country America knows is the Middle East, not any countries just the Middle East
@@idkyou8188 We know England, Ireland, France, Italy, China, Japan, Germany, At least one of the Koreas, Vietnam, Mexico, the other Mexico, other Mexicos, China 2, China 3, The Middle East, Somewhere in Africa, Russia, Egypt, various cities in other countries that we think are their own countries, Canada which we think is just cold America, and we have a revolving slot of 15 seconds of name recognition for any country that the news brings up for the day
The inclusion of greatest hits albums might be the worst thing about this
The fact that AM by arctic monkeys is on the list instead of “whatever people say that’s what I’m not” is an absolute tragedy.
The worst part is that “Whatever...” was on the 2012 list.
Arctic Monkeys haven't made an album that could be considered to be one of the best 500 albums ever.
@@MrMiniPea *ahem*... Whatever... People.. *ahem* sorry I can't finish the name it's too long lol
@@MrMiniPea their first album broke the record for fastest-selling UK album and is widely accepted as an indie classic, but you're still probably right, it ain't no Hotel California
i know. rolling stone basic af.
Also, isn’t it cheating to include greatest hits compilation? Those aren’t albums.
Decade by Neil Young has no bad song it's gotta be his best album. Yeah I think compilations are kind of cheating because they purposely only include the best of the best work
Yea it is straight up stupid to have included them
They are literally albums by definition
@Kormak, Maker of Salad True. There’s a difference between compilations of stand-alone singles, rarities, b-sides, etc. and greatest hits albums. I have no problem with the former being included on lists like these because there are many bands and artists whose compilations are high points in their discographies. The only exception for greatest hits albums I would make are for older artists who were maybe more singles-oriented.
@@killergoose7643 The process of creating a "Greatest Hits" record is completely different from the artistic process of creating a normal album. A "Greatest Hits" album isn't a cohesive work of art. It isn't tied together structurally, thematically, or sonically in the same way that a normal album is. It makes no sense to include them on a list of "greatest/most influential albums of all time". They cannot possibly be influential, because they're made up completely of previously released material.
*Doesn't even talk about the fact that Dark Side of The Moon is in the 40s*
Sadly, it ranked even lower. The new list is much worse than the previous ones.
Dude just recently got into Pink Floyd and honestly it’s so brilliant 🔥
@@supadaven210 I agree
@@supadaven210 I'm so envy of you of experiencing Pink Floyd for the first time.
@@zackzallie8735 heck ya !!! I l listened from pipers all the way through obscurity by clouds and now I’m on wish you were here. I remember the first time I put on DSOTM I shut my door and turned off the lights and stared at the moon 🌙
The lack of metal and prog albums makes this list invalid. Also love how the comments here say how King Crimson should be on the list: BECAUSE THEY SHOULD
Prog? Maybe, but no metal album has aged well,well that depends what you mean by metal
@@jackkitchen154 That take might as well be objectively bad.
@@slamchowder4112 I’m not saying metal music is bad but only a few have AGED well
@@jackkitchen154 Which makes no sense. Even if you're referring to stuff from the 70s-80s, it's not like metal isn't being made anymore. There are dozens of genres with hundreds of bands still going.
@@slamchowder4112 70s-80s metal is pretty much hard rock, I’m talking about 90s metal
This whole list change radiates, “How do you do fellow kids,” energy.
In what universe is Lemonade better than OK Computer? This whole list is idiotic.
No it screams they got yelled at for being too white.
And to be fair the place punk has relative to rap is sort of absurd. Beyond that tho.....Yea just woke crying.
There is an RB album voodoo which is like 35 that belongs at most like 250. Weird choices. Modern RB sucks
It becomes obvious when you look at the 03 list. They just needed some color near the bottom. Also they seem to be forced to respect modern country...vaguely
@@ericmiller254 Yeah, Voodoo was only 488 in 2003, and 481 in 2012... Now it's suddenly at 28 just 8 years later?!
The only way something should jump like that is if it basically created a massive genre and influenced most chart music over the last 8 years. And yet I've never heard of it, not seen any retrospectives anywhere, and Neo-Soul has been pretty irrelevant at least from a mainstream perspective pretty much since that album was released. Fucking insane.
@N K stop. To pimp of butterfly and my dark twisted fantasy how masterpieces.
Damn idk who Rolling Stone is but melon just ended their career with this review
He b r o k e them
@@jimibleachball4575 funny bait mate
Who is rolling stone
Keith Richards finally passed away after watching this
"I feel like I can break a website. I do have the power to do that."
-Anthony Fantano, The Software Engineer.
i desperately wanna see fantanos top 500 albums, or at least 100 or 50
TBH What's Going on is a solid #1 choice. It's just as relevant now as it was almost 50 years ago
Great album but BLM is the reason. Not that he was killed by his own father. RIP Marvin.
@@FuturePast2019 :|
it’s a good album but sgt pepper is better
@@FuturePast2019 Think its the reason why most are on that list except from the soul, jazz & blues greats.
@@beastieboy9286 And MeToo helped women alot Like Joni . Btw Rolling Stone Magazine is Fake News also
Hard to believe Anthony thinks Nostalgia Critic's "The Wall" belongs on the list over Pink Floyd's version.
It makes sense if you *REALLY* think about it
The list had no King Crimson, either.
AND it knocked off Captain Beefheart's Trout Mask Replica for two Taylor Swift albums jfc
@swage cate TBF Taylor Swift is horrible
Trout Mask Replica went from top 100 to not even being in the list at all
@@slm711 jesus
the two taylor swift albums are better than any album by those two bands
@@krypto210 Robert Fripp pushes the limits of guitar playing on Fracture and FraKctured. I don't just mean mentally, but what the human hand can physically do and he plays it live like it's nothing to him. In the Court of the Crimson King is the best album of the 60s on Rate Your Music, 5th ever. The hipsters there aren't exactly scientists but the damn thing is 50 years old and it sounds just as good now as it did then. 21st Century Schizoid Man is metal at its core even though it came out months before Black Sabbath's self titled, almost universally considered the birth of the genre. To Taylor's credit she writes some of her own music and it's pretty good, but she never pushed any boundaries like King Crimson or even dared to go much outside of the norm like Captain Beefheart did.
No albums by Swans, Ween, Coil, Igorrr, The Residents, Stereolab, Boredoms, and many more. Rolling Stone have never been right about anything. In fact, extremely few music critics have been right about anything.
Agree. The Mollusk should be on the list.
I'm surprised "Toxicity" inst anywhere to be found on the list
Toxicity it's such a Masterpiece, so sad thats SOAD is underrated
@Sam Myers no
@Sam Myers i said Soad is underrated not Toxicity, and I meant the album is a materpiece not the song, if you talk about the song, I think they have better songs, but imo Toxicity has the recognition that deserves
their lack of metal bothers me.
out of 500 albums only 9 were metal , from only 5 different bands(iirc).
the highest metal album is Master Of Puppets just barely at the top 100.
they left out Toxicity.
Paranoid, the single most important album for heavy and dark music(not only metal) is below Taylor Swift's Red.
no Slayer
no Iron Maiden
no Alice in Chains
this list is a joke to metal
9???? What???. Now im really mad...
Toxicity should have been on the list 100%
Fuck I'd even put Hybrid Theory in the 500-451 just because of the notoriety of the album and the band itself in the 2000s
@@FELCommentary prison song is enough to put toxicity in there lol
@@AST-erisked
it was 2 albums by nine inch nails, black sabbath, paranoid, master of reality, a motorhead album, an album i cant remember(probably a third metallica record), black album and master of puppets.
Don't worry, it's a joke to alt/folk music too. No Fleet Foxes, no Sufjan Stevens, no Father John Misty, no Laura Marling.
That Harry styles and stooges “wtf placement” was literally the first thing I noticed too
Especially considering how much styles draws from bowie, who in turn drew a hell of a lot from the first stooges album.
Pathetic.
It was polled by many people, not necessarily critics. It was weighted in a way that one idiot could have put Harry Styles top 5 and that alone could have put it on the list. That's what I suspect happened. There were a few idiot plebs voting that basically ruined the list
Billie Eillish also
yeah there is no way any thinking or effort went into the listing and to which order they are in, just slapped 500 albums and pressed random order button a bunch of times
I was sad to see nothing by Gorillaz on the list, Demon Days and Plastic Beach are DEFINITELY BETTER than Chief
Self titled deserves to be here. Their best imo
Honestly! Almost all their albums should’ve been here and been in the top 100
We deserve a pink moon classics review
Taylor Swift's Red album (#99) is higher than any Björk album on this list. Let that sink in.
it's higher than
RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE, DOOLITTLE, IN RAINBOWS, LED ZEPPELIN I, PAULS BOUTIQUE
this list sucks
Rolling Stone is dead as a stone for that decision.
It shouldn't even be higher on the list than the included Madonna albums let alone björk.
It's only her 3rd best album, too
I know right. Red i's not even better than Fearless, Speak Now, 1989, Folklore and Lover imo. A few songs on that album are worse than any Bjork song I can think of in her whole career. Not sure how an album containing a song as boring as "Stay Stay Stay" can be considered top 100 of all time.
The fact that theres not a single king crimson album on the list is a crime against humanity
How tf is that true
I didnt go through the whole thing, but if this is true then some folks over at rolling stone must have a vendetta against prog. Close to the edge being so low was bad enough imo
court of the crimson king should have at least been somewhere in the top 100, though I would defiantly put in top 5
You HAVE to be shitting me. I could get them ignoring Red but not even the obvious choice of In the Court of the Crimson King?
Thank you, now I don't have to waste my time reading that list. Holy shit, it seems like they are purposefully doing it to just get a reaction more so than appreciating the albums that influenced generations to come.
Anthony isn’t laughing here. Those hoarse exhales are withholding large amounts of rage. I don’t blame him; this list has more questionable entries than a schizophrenic’s diary.
Being a jazz musician reading this was depressing
Anthony doesn’t understand how much millennials love graduation
I think everyone loves it, it ain't hard for it to be in the favorites considering how memorable, catchy and easy it is. that being said, it probably still deserves a placement on a list like this (not in the 200 range tho)
There's way more skips than any other classic Ye project
also Graduation >>>>>> Abyss >>>>>> 808s
Good Morning was an anthem an high school/college for me and many others
do you know where blonde and channel orange are on the list?
Apparently Harry styles has a better album than the entire discography of Tool and System of a Down. Alright then.
And Talk Talk, and Slint, and a billion others
Zappa, Fugazi, Soundgarden, Aphex Twin...
@@smoshbooz Yeah I just chose to highlight some of my preferred artists that I'm baffled didn't make the list, especially with the mainstream success of each.
@@KieranH1317 Rolling Stones are pop-focused baffoons
That... that makes no fucking sense
"Philosophy of the World" should rank higher than anything Drake has ever put out
Top 5, easily.
Pretentiousness of someone more like
No
It might not be a good list for someone who's already deep into their music fandom journey, but it is a good starter kit. My grandma bought the huge ass book of this, and it's kind of what got me really into hunting down all of these different albums. Next thing you know, I was going down the Last FM rabbit hole, Wikipedia rabbit holes, eventually I subscribed to your channel.
The jazz placements on these lists are always bizarre. The lists are clearly made by people who mostly listen to rock and occasionally some jazz, so they through in a couple jazz albums to make sure they're included but they're always below rock and pop albums that frankly make no sense to be ranked above them.
Bad Bunny right behind Journey In Satchidananda made me laugh
Yeah that's the sense I get too. Old rock fans who don't really know a whole lot about other genres of music but they still through in some albums by those other genred artists so that they can make it more diverse or something.
Honestly though it only took one jazz album recommendation to get me hooked. A Love Supreme by Coltrane. I’m hardly original
Idk about that, there aren't only writers from Rolling Stone having the right to vote... Some artists did too, and not everyone of them does Rock music...
@@mihaiesanu9945 yeah but I think those people are outnumbered by the rockist people on it
The fact that this magazine didn't included King Crimson's debut album for three straight times (2003, 2012 and now 2020) is a crime against music, and there's a lot of albums that deserve to be in there too
Rolling Stone magazine proves it's irrelevance more and more with every list
Rolling stone hates prog rock in general
@LAW I agree that Red is better but ITCOTCK is so well known and standard example that it should be more likely on list like this one.
King Crimson made so many good and artistic influencial records... in my perfect world on this list should be also Larks tongues in aspic, Red, ITCOTCK and Discipline and Animals by Pink Floyd to name a few.
Red (the one Red that should've been in here) got snubbed as well. I'm seething with anger
@LAW this
If you think about it, we can just put all of fantano's most highly rated albums together and have a "Theneedledrops 500 Greatest Albums list" right?
I would like to see that
Well, what about the pre-2010s albums?
"Honestly surprised by the lack of Corey Feldman on this list" -Melon
Amazing quote 👏
Yea it is completely ridiculous how they included “greatest hits” albums and shit like that
The fact that Björk's Vespertine isn't on the list says more about the list than the tedious list itself does.
Definitely
I agree that Vespertine should be on there, but that sentence makes no sense :D
@@BFHThePunisher3000 Had to give the list a taste of its own medicine, sorry!
@@tayhammer Homogenic and Debut, although great in their own rights, are not better than Vespertine. That album is transcendent. I get that it's Fantano-core now but I've been stanning this album since I was a teenager.
@@sonnysinghcreates The Knife definitely have a few albums which could qualify in their own right. Silent Alarm was hugely influential and Shaking the Habitual was just punk as fuck.
Graduation is the best Kanye album in my opinion. It’s aged the best and it’s his best album for non hip hop fans to get into hip hop
Fax
True
The only good thing about this list is listening to it, without reference to rating, and discovering new sounds and artists.
Exactly, this is also why the IMDB Top 250 is worth checking out.
That’s true
Man, not including In the court of the crimson king is just criminal
RIght??? Quite possibly the greatest prog-rock album of all time...
@@brandonglazer1188 hell, you could make a case for it being a top 10 album.
A fuKcing CoKc Lover?
Red is honestly even better than In the court of the crimson king
Larks Tongues in Aspic could've fit pretty well on here too I think
Rolling stones list before
1.(Bob) Dylan
2.(Bob) Dylan
3.(Bob) Dylan
4.(Bob) Dylan
5.(Bob) Dylan
hah and dont forget
1. The) Beatles
2. The) Beatles
3. The) Beatles
4. The) Beatles
5. The) Beatles
@@xdman20005 I mean they're spot on there is well-deserved. It's hard making a greatest of all time list without Sgt. Pepper's (especially), Revolver, Abbey Road, and, maybe Rubber Soul. Also the fact that Sgt. Pepper's is at 24 bothers me.
As it should have been
@@_PuppetMaster86 the beatles is cosy stuff, but far from the greatest music out there. Just historic bias
@@_PuppetMaster86 how dare they lol. Pepper #1. Period.
Its also important to say that music is not only in english…as a mexican it bothers me that they don’t consider music that’s not in English. There is awesome music in spanish, in Portuguese, etc. Rolling Stone is very partial as always in its rankings
Angelic 2 the Core not being number one is one of the biggest injustices in the music industry.
This list felt like they were trying to appeal to the young people instead of actually making a "500 Greatest Albums of All Time"
yeah how did they kick sgt peppers from NUMBER 1 to number 24? doesnt make sense
appealing to young people??????? this is a boomer list on all fronts lmao pink Floyd and Beatles at the top... weird asf
@@gaming0306 okay, yeah. I didnt re-check to confirm. but you get my point , this list was heavily biased to pre-00s music
It was a boomer list. Then they said “how do you do fellow kids” and updated it and that’s why you have a Beyoncé record in the top 50
@@choppa3544 Yes it does. I like Sgt Peppers, but number one?! That's an absolute joke.
I love Harry but this is disgusting. So is Drake's 'Take Care' beating out 'Pink Moon'.
When I first listened to Nick Drake, it felt like I had found a secret. It just caught me in exactly the right moment. First time living abroad, with winter quickly approaching while I was slowly falling in love with someone whom I was too afraid to tell. That melancholic wonder is still there when I hear him now. Glad to see other people who like him.
take care is better though.
why tf is Drake doing on this list😭😭 i know this list is Messy but WHY DRAKE?!?!?!?!?!!!!!!!
@@fawnrot illegal shitpost
NWTS wasnt even on there and that's his best album
As I love the 2012 list and have been collecting everything I can from it, when this 2020 list came out, you could literally see the soul leave my eyes.
The first such attempt RS made (that I'm aware of) was in 1987. It was only 100 albums then. At first I laughed at it because I laughed at all critics at that time. I eventually ended up owning all the albums on that list, which is what made me start taking critics seriously. Since then, I laugh more and more at each successive list because I can see how the driving force in the ideology behind it is moving from assessing artistic excellence to asserting some sort of politically-motivated ideology of inclusiveness.
There's a considerable bias on this list. For instance, how is Master of Puppets the only metal album in the top 100?
I completely agree. In fact, even though MOP is legendary, I'd argue it isn't even in the top 5 metal albums of all time.
@@openthepit482 fair. What would you put instead?
@@volrath6139 Wouldn't know what to put on the RS list, but the Top 5 metal albums of all time for me would be 5. Candlemass- Epicus Doomicus Metallicus 4. Bathory- Under the Sign of the Black Mark 3. Death- Human 2. Metallica- Ride the Lightning 1. Black Sabbath- Master of Reality
@@openthepit482 okay, but putting legendary aside metal albums don’t age so well
Hotel California being ranked before Led Zeppelin II is a crime against humanity
And before the downward spiral!
@@eliseoayala7503 Well no shit. Led Zeppelin is the greatest rock band of all time. I’m saying Hotel California is nowhere near Led Zeppelin II
Huge led zeppelin fan here but among all their albums Led Zeppelin II is probably the one with the most """stolen""" songs so... I don't know i would have put physical graffiti in top 20
I am an active Zep hater and I agree. Because if there's one band I despise more than Zep in the classic rock field it's the fucking Eagles.
It’s not. I know hating on Eagles is popular (for some reason?), but HC is a great album and it isn’t even The Eagles best. Desperado, One of These Nights, and On The Border would like a word. Don’t get me wrong, Zeppelin is EASILY in my Top 5 favorite bands.
Anthony scrolls past The Downward Spiral without saying anything
me: *screams in industrial*
I know right?
They also completely skipped Throbbing Gristle, Cabaret Voltaire, Coil, Skinny Puppy, Ministry-industrial just got completely shafted, along with electronic and experimental music more generally. And ambient music, unless you count Another Green World, was functionally entirely absent.
It isn't a bad industrial album though, unless you hate it because it's popular
@@ConvincingPeople it's rolling stone, why would they ever give a shit about any important industrial
@@ConvincingPeople Front 242, Laibach, Nitzer Ebb, Portion Control, Revolting Cocks, VNV Nation, Apoptygma Berserk, Psychick TV, and on and fucking on it goes.
I disagree on Graduation. Great album back to front some of the beats and samples on there are so good. 808s is great in concept but songs like The Glory, Everything I Am, I Wonder and Good Morning are better than most songs on 808s.
Exactly man dude was losing it right there. Graduation > 808s by far
You’re gonna do that to Streets Lights and Welcome to Heartbreak
I just realized that Rush never put out a better record than Fine Line
Rush's Moving Pictures is in this list tho.
@@zackzallie8735 needs more than just that 😔
i never see any other rush fans
Anthony, you can’t just threaten to kill the families of everyone who made this list just because To Be Kind wasn’t #1.
Yes, yes he can
Well not ethically and reasonably, he can’t.
@@jamescarlisle4023 there is no reason when dealing with the almighty melon
You’re right. Reason doesn’t apply to talking fruit.
**blacker the berry single by kendrick lamae
My favorite Neil Young album , "On the Beach", finally made the list.
great lp.
Dude, I really do like Extraordinary Machine. Admittedly, I still need to listen to Fiona Apple's more critically acclaimed stuff, but that was a nice album, especially as her career shifted from the 90's to the 2000's, and I love how playful both the music and lyrics are on it.
So they didn't include In The Court Of The Crimson King, one of the most acclaimed and influential albums of the 20th century?
They also removed Trout Mask Replica
@@YusefIsAGod :(
I love that album but i have to ask how was it influential?
@A A no im trying to ask how was it i influential like. Why and how?
@@ppmcpoo6920 for challenging the norm of rock music at the time on a compositional and artistic level. Before ITCOTCK album dropped, rock is mostly a blues-based subgenre, and King Crimson presented a rock album with notable influences from other niches from jazz to classical music. On technical level, this put rock music to a new realm of artistry just like what TVUN and Sgt Peppers did years prior. It also spawned a new movement of rock and inspired rock artists to take more inspirations beyond the realm of blues and itself
I have to agree with you melon, Fruit Salad by the Wiggles should not have been #1. Top 10 maybe but definitely not 1.
nice
I agree with almost everything Melon said in this video, but Hotel California was a summertime thrill in the 70s whether you like the Eagles or not it’s an important piece of rock history and I’ll always love their work because my grandma showed them to me as a kid
That is 100% correct, it's one of the most popular classic rock albums of all time. Just because it gets overplayed doesn't mean it's bad.
True it’s a classic album and every song on it is amazing besides the hits
What I don't get is why The Long Run isn't on Rolling Stone's or anyone else's best of lists. There isn't a bad or forgettable track on it, it's musically diverse, has plenty of subtle (and unsubtle) social commentary in the lyrics, and is the hardest rocking Eagles album. I'd rank it above Eagles or Desperado.
@@scottmcneely1927 I don’t necessarily love "The Long Run" but it's definitely underrated, most rank it as the worst of their original run which I've never understood
As soon as you mentioned there were *compilations* on this list, my mind was blown.
COMPILATIONS 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 ALBUMS
You didn’t even mention that Arcade Fire’s Funeral just barely squeezes onto the list at 500.
Yeah that's quite sad actually
Yeah that's pretty wack. I'm glad it made it on the list, but it should be at least 250 slots higher.
Agreed, easily a top 15-20 2000s alternative album
Imagine thinking there are 499 albums that are better than Funeral. lol
That’s bullshit. That album slaps
Rolling Stone is a joke, always has been.
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They seem to judge an album’s merits on sheer units. It’s always been a Rockist bullshit publication.
Rolling Stone is terrible
All I’m saying is that melodrama by Lorde and red by Taylor swift deserved a lotttttttttttttt better
Except when they exposed labels recently for using payola
I'm surprised you didn't talk about 50 Cent's GRODT being on here, let alone it being at 280
Im actually surprised not any Animal Collective album made it, not even MPP. Personally I love Spirits They are gone, probably one of the greatest pieces i have ever heard, but I guess that is only me.
Lists like this are always a joke.
Fun to go through as a reminder to listen to certain artists/albums though.
Yeah. I love it when they're like "BEST of ALL TIME!!!" when really they only mean a tiny subset from a small selection of genres across only a few decades from artists that were either American or native English speakers.
They could've just made a list titled "500 classics old and modern that we recommend to hard rock, pop and jazz fans", but I guess it's not clickbaity enough. They want to get people's attention and make-a the moolah, for better or for worse.
As an American expat living in Europe, who's been exposed to a very large diversity of European and Asian music, such lists are always an anglocentric joke to me. Even then, they have a peculiar affinity for ignoring bands and musicians that weren't or aren't on the spectrum of politically acceptable, i.e. that were anti-capitalist or unpatriotic. That's why CCR is ranked criminally low, Toxicity isn't on there, and neither is any Immortal Technique or Dean Reed album, to say nothing of albums by musicians from socialist or former socialist countries (cold war enemy nations). For a newspaper that likes to pride itself on how open-minded and pro-Marxist it is, the Rolling Stones has a real knack for corporate poptimist bootlicking.
Bingo. That’s what a list like this is great for. Out of their top 50 or 100, if you find one you don’t know, chances are it’s gonna be worth your time.
@@hermionestranger4964 Come on, you gotta admit a title like "500 classics old and modern that we recommend to hard rock, pop and jazz fans" is kinda rubbish though. It's so longwinded.
@@hermionestranger4964 gotta agree with u there
We want to see a Anthony Fantano Greatest 500 Albums of all time List.
#makeithappen
It only takes a few months for a album to be named a classic nowadays
I’ve been listening to the 500 created before this list. Glad it’s different to the one you mentioned. Has some best ofs, but bit as many. I don’t think you can expect international albums or much jazz though (or hip hop!) as it’s based on their readerships tastes in part
If Total xanarchy is not top 10 this is not a valid list 😤😤😤 on my momma
Or The Big Day
It ranked 6.. Way too low of a ranking but I guess it's still fair
Yo mama dead then
Harvard dropout #1
Literally this list has established Rolling Stone as a geriatric and people-pleasing joke
Come on they didn't even write it, of course it's people pleasing because people voted for the list lol
Hunter would be displeased at it's current state of woe.
i mean its been that for a long tmie
Yeah, they putted Kendrick and Kanye in the top 20. People over 40 almost never listen to Kanye or Kendrick. I doubt most of the people who worked on this even listen to MBDTF and TPAB.
this video could be an hour long, I loved it
A list of the top 500 albums that doesn't have Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness on it cannot be taken seriously.
It was in 2003 but for some reason they removed it
Nah, anglocentric is the correct term here.
Most English speaking people wont listen to an album except if it's either in English or instrumental
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It’s almost like English speakers don’t speak other languages
But, Bad Bunny is on the list. He's Puerto Rican.
@@buttermilkjesus408 there's a reason music is universal. You don't need to know the language to enjoy the music. Also translations are widely available online nowadays so it's not like you can't find the meaning of the lyrics